Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
The Road to Che
A bicycle on an iron support standing on a rock plinth – it was the simplest monument I’d ever seen. It was a real bike too, one that had been used, not pre-cast in metal or concrete. The monument sits in the Cuban city of Cardenas, where the most of the people rely on […]
Suicide Blast in Islamabad leaves 13 dead including 3 women, 37 injured
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– Following a series of suicide attacks in NWFP targeting security forces in the past week, a powerful suicide bomb blast killed thirteen political workers including three women and wounded another 37 political workers and police officials just meters from the stage set by Islamabad Bar Association for address of chief justice Iftikhar […]
Last writings of besieged female students of Lal Mosque
Saeed Minhas Islamabad–Amidst no respite for hundreds of parents looking for their missing loved ones and under-curfew residents of G-6 area in Islamabad, army allowed the media people to observe the devastation and destruction caused at Lal Mosque, adjacent Jamia Hafsa and children’s library as a result of the Operation Silence (now termed as […]
THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, CONTINUED
This part of the Twenty-first Century marks the continuation of putting history in order. Especially in the Art world where everyday is important as it develops like a slow film process. Moves at the speed of transmission and huge like an iceberg in motion. The beginning of order is categorical. A container with items placed […]
THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
<p>I am all about being a visual person. Ever since I was born I began to see. Let me tell you about one of the first visions I had when I was an infant in Prague Czechoslovakia. I was looking up at the amazing clock tower in the main square while in my mothers arms, I saw […]